On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25:36 -0400, Robert Menes 
(viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com) wrote: 

> Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little
> memory refresher with.
> 
> I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on
> bootup. I know there was a
> way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and need to not be rusty).
> 
> Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line,
> bypassing X? Thanks!

I do this by not having xdm, gdm or kdm installed and starting X with
"startx" when required.

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